Archive for July, 2008

I wouldn’t normally comment on politics but today I was prompted into posting a rant which I’ve had brewing for a while.
Whilst catching up on my blog subscriptions, I read Cory Doctorow’s post concerning this podcast interview with Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom, I’m certain that this is satire but the fact that I had to do [...]

A List Apart are once again running a survey to find out how the web design industry hangs together. From the website:
Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture [...]

A subject which I’ve been wrestling with for a while now is this whole ASP.Net vs PHP thing. I’ve been a .Net developer for years now and before that I worked primarily in ASP (vbscript). But recently I’ve grown more interested in experimenting with PHP. At a recent conference, a Microsoft representative asked me why [...]

I finally got around to reading Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow and I’ve got a better understanding of whuffie after hearing all about it at Fuel from Tara Hunt.
The book is set in a future where there is no scarcity so money is obsolete. The de facto currency instead [...]

I noticed the link to this on Jacob Morgan’s blog recently, Sliderocket is a web-application for creating presentations. This in itself is nothing new Google docs has included a presentation application for a while now and Zoho Show is also well established but there are two main problems with each of them:

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